Subj : Re: Trialing FMail/lnx - Phase 4
To   : Wilfred Van Velzen
From : Paul Quinn
Date : Sat Sep 16 2017 22:56:00

Hi! Wilfred,

On Sat, 16 Sep 17, you wrote to me:

 PQ>> Just between you & me before anyone else notices: how
 PQ>> does one bargain with or bribe FMail into exporting a 
 PQ>> FREQ netmail into the binkD stream?
 WvV> You can't.

I am crushed.  :(

 PQ>> FMail completely ignores a FREQ from me to my main
 PQ>> node,
 WvV> That's by design. Freq's are not really the domain of a
 WvV> mail processor/tosser.

You had better tell FTools then.  It has a 'post' function sporting a '-r' 
switch (I wasn't using it... honest).

 WvV> A BSO mailer needs a .req file to send a file request to a
 WvV> node.

That's all the tosser needs to do in a BSO environment: parse the Subj field 
for FREQ-able filename(s), and create the .Req file for the intended system 
from the netmail.  That .Req file is added to the .Flo file.  The contents are 
the requested filename(s) at one per line.

 WvV>  So if you would pack a netmail with a freq flag into
 WvV> a .pkt file nothing that you expect would happen except of
 WvV> course the .pkt file would be send to the node. Where it
 WvV> would be handled by the nodes tosser, and not by the
 WvV> mailer or freq processor...

That is something like a FrontDoor/Intermail environment (maybe not the .Pkt 
part).  I dunno any more as I gave up on FroDo last century.

I'm pretty sure these are the ways that FastEcho works.  That may not carry 
much weight with you and I am not wielding it as if in an argument; I'm just 
saying.  IAC, I am happy to be corrected by Mark Lewis as he knows best.

OTOH, I have learned to not be able to FREQ via netmail from node #1384 since 
having used CrashMail II for the last five years.  It is similarly retarded.  
I'm not disappointed, just crushed.  ;-)

Thank you for your time.

Cheers,
Paul.

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 * Origin: Quinn's Post - Maryborough, Queensland, OZ (3:640/384)

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